Introduction : angels and pimps : toward a diplomatic poetics
Words and deeds : diplomacy and humanist fiction
The useful and the honorable : the ethics of mediation in the late Renaissance
Epic and the law of nations : Tasso's Jerusalem delivered
From Cortez to Camões : identity and authority in the discourse of discovery
Big states and small states : sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, and the theater of Pierre Corneille
Hamlet's diplomacy : state-building, dispatch, and revenge
The tragedy of delegation : diplomatic action and tragic form in Racine's Andromaque
Conclusion : in the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs.
Fictions of embassy : literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe by Timothy Hampton. ISBN 9780801447754. Published by Cornell University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.